23:15-22
We now come to the Festival of Weeks. This is so called because they were to hold it about seven weeks after Passover. It is also known as Pentecost , which means fifty (Acts 2:1). It was associated with giving thanks for the harvest. There were to be grain and lamb offerings. There were sin and fellowship offerings. Without our sins being atoned for there can be no fellowship with God. At the end there is a repeat of the command not to harvest to the edges of the fields, something was to be left for the poor and the foreigner. Neither of whom would have any land in the country.
23:23-25
Next is the festival of trumpets. This was so-called because it involved being commemorated with trumpet blasts. It took place half way through the year. As with other times, no work was to be done. There is a clear emphasis on the fact that these festivals were for the Lord, and that the people were not to work. Likewise, we add nothing to our salvation, it is all the work of Christ, and we are to celebrate it “in remembrance of Him”.
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